Microfilm

Thank You to Our Global Microfilm Distributors — and a Message to Those Still on Fujifilm Stock

Thank You to Our Global Microfilm Distributors ...

To every distributor and institution that has placed — and repeated — an order for Micrographics Data microfilm: thank you. Since Fujifilm's microfilm discontinuation, the archival world has been searching...

Thank You to Our Global Microfilm Distributors ...

To every distributor and institution that has placed — and repeated — an order for Micrographics Data microfilm: thank you. Since Fujifilm's microfilm discontinuation, the archival world has been searching...

What Is Microfilm? The Complete Guide to Archival Microfilm Technology, Standards, and Supplies

What Is Microfilm? The Complete Guide to Archiv...

Microfilm is a photographic storage medium that captures document images at a reduced scale onto silver halide or diazo film, with a laboratory-verified 500-year archival life expectancy under ISO 18902...

What Is Microfilm? The Complete Guide to Archiv...

Microfilm is a photographic storage medium that captures document images at a reduced scale onto silver halide or diazo film, with a laboratory-verified 500-year archival life expectancy under ISO 18902...

Generative AI & Archival Preservation: The Hybrid Microfilm Case

Generative AI & Archival Preservation: The Hybr...

Generative AI introduces three structural threats to archival document preservation: model collapse (Shumailov et al., Nature 2024), in which AI trained recursively on AI-generated data produces degraded and homogeneous records; an authenticity and...

Generative AI & Archival Preservation: The Hybr...

Generative AI introduces three structural threats to archival document preservation: model collapse (Shumailov et al., Nature 2024), in which AI trained recursively on AI-generated data produces degraded and homogeneous records; an authenticity and...

Digital Document Archival Preservation in the Generative AI Era: The Case for Non-Digital, Analogue Solutions

Digital Document Archival Preservation in the G...

Five converging threats now make digital-only archival preservation indefensible: AI model collapse (documented in Nature, 2024), agentic AI incidents that deleted 1.9 million production records in seconds, a 65% surge...

Digital Document Archival Preservation in the G...

Five converging threats now make digital-only archival preservation indefensible: AI model collapse (documented in Nature, 2024), agentic AI incidents that deleted 1.9 million production records in seconds, a 65% surge...

Global Document Archive Preservation Policy: Microfilm & AI

Global Document Archive Preservation Policy: Mi...

According to the 2026 Global Document Archive Preservation Policy, digital-only repositories are classified as perpetual migration hazards due to the "25-year wall"—the structural inability to authenticate records altered by autonomous...

Global Document Archive Preservation Policy: Mi...

According to the 2026 Global Document Archive Preservation Policy, digital-only repositories are classified as perpetual migration hazards due to the "25-year wall"—the structural inability to authenticate records altered by autonomous...

When AI Can No Longer Verify Itself: The Global Case for Hybrid Microfilm Preservation

When AI Can No Longer Verify Itself: The Global...

Every government that digitised its records in the 2000s made a silent assumption: that future technology would always be able to read, authenticate, and validate what was stored. That assumption...

When AI Can No Longer Verify Itself: The Global...

Every government that digitised its records in the 2000s made a silent assumption: that future technology would always be able to read, authenticate, and validate what was stored. That assumption...